From the #1 Cata review on Amazon.com: "Blizzard's greatest misstep was blaming players instead of admitting their mistakes.
They've convinced half of the population that the other half are unskilled whiners, causing a permanent rift in the community."

The problem is in you and not in the environment, and you have to understand that all of those frustrations and all of that anger is nothing more than a projection of who you really are on the inside. It’s nothing more than a projection of your inner self, and you and I know thats where there is anger there is also pain underneath.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us
so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid,
or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice.

I always found the pets pathetic in that manner. They shouldn't be used in combat\pvp\dungeons\raids. Its just ridiculous being in an arena or raiding 25, and having balloons, orphans and pink elephants about, cluttering the screen even more.

Personally i find it ridiculous, prance around in town all you want, but hey, to each his own.

I have the balloon on all of my toons and I pretty much have it out constantly. I've never been asked to remove it though.
I used to walk around Orgrimmar and roleplay that the balloon whispered me terrible things, that freaked people out a bit.

So that means 10.2 million players are you and who you raid with? None of the 10.2 million players can't even have issues with extra pets running around in raids making an already congested area more congested (and causing more lag)?

-_-

lol'd.
if you're lagging, because a little bear ran across your screen you seriously need a better computer.
if you're distracted by a tiny phoenix hatching in the corner of your screen and you wipe your raid, you should try to get some raid awareness.

Seems to be mostly 12 year olds that like pets. Surely if you see a player with a pet in a dungeon, you excuse yourself because it's going to fail? See the positives in a negative, the pets are telling you something. RUN.

When people run around with their cookied pets in an instance and I'm tanking it, I usually don't mind it. However if/when I do, I ask them to remove it because it messes up targeting and I don't want to tab around like a retard just to find the right target to mark.
And if they bitch and moan or try to troll me, I just simply kick them. :P It's hilarious because people press the Accept button 90% of the time.

What does that have to do with discipline, it is simply having your raid cripple itself because a few people can't pay attention? If that is the case, and that is what you need to do to make progress it is not an issue of discipline but simply doing what needs to be done to move forward. Granted in the case of WoW pets, there is no benefit provided so not having them out shouldn't be an issue, but then again having them out shouldn't be any more distracting than 500 other things going on in the raid, being able to pay attention is important and if a balloon is throwing you off your game there are bigger issues that need to be addressed. Also what rules get laid down for runs tends to be more of a guild thing than a game thing IMHO.

Seriously this. I'm a high-speed, low-drag, supah-healah. Doling out the feel-goods LIKE A BAWS, keeping everyone shiny, happy and cool. Staying on top of my game, even in a combat situati....THERE'S THAT DAMN GROUNDHOG AGAIN!!!

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